A window washer was killed and his partner was seriously injured when their scaffold fell 40 stories from a skyscraper this morning.
<br> NEW YORK — A window washer was killed and his partner was seriously injured when their scaffold fell 40 stories from a skyscraper this morning.
<p> The injured man was taken to a hospital in serious condition, fire officials said.</p>
<p> Parts of the scaffold and the body of the dead worker were in a plaza area outside the building on the east side of the city.</p>
<p> No other information was immediately available.</p>
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